MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Surjan mean?
Surjan is a vernacular form of Sujan, built from su, “good”, and jana, “person”. The name belongs to the everyday vocabulary of a good or worthy person.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुर्जन
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सुरजन
Letter-by-letter: surajana
8,241 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Surjan in Indian usage
11,949 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (87.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,526 records (12.8%).
- Recorded as male: 10,423 records (87.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 815 |
| 1940s | 1,659 |
| 1950s | 2,024 |
| 1960s | 2,280 |
| 1970s | 2,016 |
| 1980s | 1,754 |
| 1990s | 1,138 |
| Other decades | 263 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,609 |
| Rajasthan | 2,080 |
| Punjab | 1,980 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,534 |
| Haryana | 1,211 |
| Jharkhand | 432 |
| Bihar | 362 |
| Uttarakhand | 327 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 227 |
| Other states | 187 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, sujana, p. 1223,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.